Oh Super Sweet 90's Inserts.... #3

[RustyGreerFan]

Is this what I think it is? If so, I'm going to be very happy come Monday. If not, it won't be the first time I fooled myself.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cal-Ripken-Jr-1 ... 4cfc23b26c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Got it. It's real, and it's spectacular.

Lucky it's as good lookin' as it is. One of the crappiest soft sleeves I've ever received a card in, the hard sleeve had the sticky residue from a previous taping, and he inexplicably scotch taped the hard sleeve to a piece of paper which loosely wrapped the hard sleeve. The card had slid out and the tape was touching the card, but disaster was miraculously averted.

Certainly I'm not complaining, I just find it comical.

I'd scan it, but the original scan on the link above is about as good as mine would be.

 

[riveraXVX]

Picked these up for $3.25 at my first card show since probably 1998. Needed the McGwire for my set in progress and thought I'd never find it for a fair price. That Griffey might be my favorite pattern from 98 Tek.

This one seller had a TON of great stuff for super cheap, but I felt like I had to hurry and missed a bunch of goodies. I left a Roger Clemens 2003 UD 40-man rainbow for $3 and am regretting it.

see now I'm kicking myself that I couldn't make it out to charlotte and just from the sounds of this that one vendor had better 90s stuff than EVERY vendor at the past two shows from them i went to here in greensboro including the one last week haha

*shakes fist*

 

[nosterbor]

Picked these up for $3.25 at my first card show since probably 1998. Needed the McGwire for my set in progress and thought I'd never find it for a fair price. That Griffey might be my favorite pattern from 98 Tek.

This one seller had a TON of great stuff for super cheap, but I felt like I had to hurry and missed a bunch of goodies. I left a Roger Clemens 2003 UD 40-man rainbow for $3 and am regretting it.

see now I'm kicking myself that I couldn't make it out to charlotte and just from the sounds of this that one vendor had better 90s stuff than EVERY vendor at the past two shows from them i went to here in greensboro including the one last week haha

*shakes fist*

Nice cards. I now include the 98 Topps Tek's as inserts!

 

[RustyGreerFan]

I now include the 98 Topps Teks as inserts!

I think if you do the math there are about 500-600 of each pattern. That's limited enough to me to call 'em inserts!

 

[ThoseBackPages]

big player collector pickup for myself:

 

[miguelcabrera]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jeff-Cirillo-Es ... 500wt_1147


or all 3 for 26 dlvd

 

[joey12508]

big player collector pickup for myself:

great in action pic on that card. nice.

 

[djrulz]

Got this just today

 

[RustyGreerFan]

Thanks to txcarr for the hookup on this - needed it!

1999 Skybox Star Rubies

It had quite a journey. Got returned to sender looking like it had been run over by a truck, but finally ended up with me looking none the worse for wear.

And here's that Mirror Gold. It feels weird to have collected for so long and suddenly a bargain BIN becomes far and away the premier card in my collection.

 

[nosterbor]

WOW! Nice, scan's do nothing for these cards.Very nice pick up. You should be able to get some awesome Greer's for that.

 

[Brewer Andy]

FINALLY found one of these!

 

[Gwynn545]

SWEET!!!!! Love those!!!!

 

[cbrandtw]

Landed a biggie for me.

 

[Gwynn545]

Landed a biggie for me.

Wow! What an awesome auto! That's an amazing looking card with that beautiful auto! WOW!

 

[nosterbor]

Landed a biggie for me.

Yesssss, Awesome.

I have 2 Juan's

 

[TBTwinsFan]

Are those parallels?

I own one of these and if it is a parallel, then I need to look for it. I am probably off though.

Sick card BTW!

 

[David T.]

Landed a biggie for me.

Wow! What an awesome auto! That's an amazing looking card with that beautiful auto! WOW!

I agree, that Blue auto looks fantastic!
Most of these I ever saw were Black ink like Nosterbor's Juan.
I don't think I ever saw any with that Blue ink, although I haven't spent a lot of time looking.
Beautiful card!
David

 

[gracecollector]

Picked these up for $3.25 at my first card show since probably 1998. Needed the McGwire for my set in progress and thought I'd never find it for a fair price. That Griffey might be my favorite pattern from 98 Tek.

This one seller had a TON of great stuff for super cheap, but I felt like I had to hurry and missed a bunch of goodies. I left a Roger Clemens 2003 UD 40-man rainbow for $3 and am regretting it.

see now I'm kicking myself that I couldn't make it out to charlotte and just from the sounds of this that one vendor had better 90s stuff than EVERY vendor at the past two shows from them i went to here in greensboro including the one last week haha

*shakes fist*

Nice cards. I now include the 98 Topps Tek's as inserts!

So if they are inserts, what were the base cards? Teks patterns are parallels, not inserts. Diffractors are parallel inserts.

 

[cbrandtw]

Are those parallels?

I own one of these and if it is a parallel, then I need to look for it. I am probably off though.

Sick card BTW!

The Big Book says, "Century Marks represent the first 100 autographs by the 30 short-printed stars and prospects, plus Alex Ochoa. These are designated with a blue holographic foil "Century Marks" logo. Cards of Gonzalez, Jeter, Andruw Jones, Palmeiro, and Alex Rodriguez were available only via mail-in redemption cards."

your guy was not on the checklist.

 

[tonsofcommons]

Gracecollector- I would even consider them parallels, because a parallel is a variation of the base card. What is the base card?

The Diffractor is the parallel.